Status Quo.

It's such a relief that everything has come back to normal. That's one less undesirable derangement to deal with. And speaking of derangements, I feel like Life, which is dynamic, always in a constant flux of change, can be likened to the body, with so many homeostatic mechanisms set in place. It reveals the fundamental principle that in everything that we are and in everything that we do, each quality or characteristic has some sort of reference range or baseline. Leads me to think about how we're always routinely engaged in the things that we do, or routinely concerned about the things that we are engaged in. Perhaps, because thats how each of us are defined, by our habits and our routines, and how we're willing to take each quality within us, to the limits.

So how does change take place? The change must be gradual, overlapping with that reference range within us to some degree, and slowly, in time, edging itself further into our zone of acceptance, or zone of comfort, until finally, it's so strongly established in us, lying in the box of our lives, and perhaps, broadening our horizons, prompting us to be receptive to further change. And so we adapt.

But if that change does not lie within our acceptable limits, or comes on too quickly, too strongly for it's reception, we tend to reject it. However, there is still the possibility that the initial 'insult', however large or alien it was, will prepare us for future attempts at receiving and adapting to such a change. Hm.

Whoa, ok. Enough of that. I'm gonna make hotdogs for dinner. Yum.